People get kind of silly around babies and pets, don’t they? Babies? Fine. All bets are off. It’s like some biological imperative to let the baby know we’re not a threat by acting ridiculous. Pets, though, people fall in to two rigid camps: ‘Getting Cutesy With Your Pets is Idiotic’ and “Mr. Barkington doesn’t see […]
March 26, 2012
What Goes Through My Head When I Look At The Hubble Deep-Field Images
As you may have seen last week, there are new images taken by the Hubble telescope from deep field. This isn’t just deep space – this is up to an estimated 13 billion years in space/time. What they did was, instead of pointing the telescope at something, they – in what sounds like something that […]
March 25, 2012
Hey, Blogosphere! Are You Ready To ROCK?? (If Not I Can Wait…)
The world’s rock bands need your help! Clearly, the world is running out of viable names for rock bands, as the emergence of more and more strained, awful band names come up, such as !!!(pronounced “chk, chk, chk”), And They Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, and Dance of the Mourning Child. Obviously, […]
March 23, 2012
Senator Strangelove, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Find The Silver-Lining In The Popularity of Rick Santorum
When Rick Santorum first got mentioned as running for the Republican nomination, I laughed a bit, because, you know… Santorum. He’s insane. If this were a different time-period is there even a doubt that he’d burning witches? It can really feel like we live in a hate-filled time, but there is a silver-lining, so to […]
March 22, 2012
Hey, Laura From “Laughter Is Catching”! Let’s Play 20 Questions!
Today’s 20 Questions interview is with the beloved Laura Tinker over at Laughter is Catching. I’ve been a fan of Laura’s(aka Tinkerbelle) for some time, as she has a fantastic ability to weave stories and bring into her narrative. Her blog can cover a huge range of topics – concerts, travel, people being mean in […]
March 20, 2012
Ninja Turtles: Now Explodier Than Ever
I need to learn to let it go. You’d think, after the incredibly popular movie Transformers spawned two unbelievably popular sequels, I’d just accept it. And yet I can’t! The idea that someone, director Michael Bay, could take a toy from the 80’s and turn it in to a movie about aliens who are living […]
March 18, 2012
You Know What They Say, “A Wink Is As Good As A Disturbing Implication”
This week’s Weekly Question of the Week is about winking. Yes, the wink. The micro-second flirter, the conspirer, the communicator of inside knowledge, the facial tic that gets mistaken for sexual harassment. Also something that is hilarious when people lack the musculature to do it. Like when little kids wink, and their entire face collapses […]
March 16, 2012
The Ruinin’ O’ The Festivities
Well, St Patrick’s Day is upon us again, and you know what that means! No, not that… No, not that either… Okay, I’ll just tell you. It’s time for my annual Why I Don’t Like St. Patrick’s Day Buzzkill! Yay! Yes, loyal readers, I have been – in my more dramatically self-indulgent periods – the […]
The Byronic Man 
March 27, 2012
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